Most people just see the sphinx. Then they notice the circles looped onto the sphinx’s backside, connecting it to an inexplicable J shape. Then the eye moves up to the name of a 1920s magazine: “FIRE!

When we think about the Harlem Renaissance, we usually think about it as a literary movement, writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. But the Black cultural revival that spanned from the ...

The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most important artistic and cultural milestones in modern history, and a sweeping new exhibit at The New York Historical highlights how this era was — as Henry ...

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It might have been just another book release party for a young writer’s first novel, but the 1924 dinner held to launch “This is Confusion” ended up instead launching something far greater — the ...

K. Ward Cummings makes the case that Gen X Black Americans may be leading the way to the “Golden Age of African Americans” (“Black Gen X: the bridge generation ushering in the ‘Golden Age of African ...

Major funding for NYC-ARTS is made possible by The Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold, The Lewis “Sonny” Turner Fund for Dance, The Ambrose Monell Foundation, Elise Jaffe … More ...

Planning to join us at The Root 100 Gala at the Apollo Theater on December 5? it’s the perfect time to celebrate 100 years of Harlem Renaissance style. The Harlem Renaissance was a golden age of Black ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is showcasing visual artists from the Harlem Renaissance in the exhibition, “The Harlem Renaissance and... 'The Harlem Renaissance' and what is Black art for? SCOTT ...

A guest stop to read parts of the “FIRE!” magazine at entrance of the Silhouette exhibition inside The Wolfsonian - FIU on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in Miami Beach, Florida. Carl Juste ...